About Instinct and Noah Shinn • Founder & Background: Noah Shinn is a 23-year-old college dropout and former research scientist at the AI startup Sierra. [1, 2, 3] • • The Product: Operated under Spear Street Technology, Inc., Instinct is an invite-only personal AI assistant that can carry out real-world tasks (like booking travel, managing schedules, and handling subscriptions) via text and phone calls. [1, 2, 3] • • Growth & Valuation: Despite being invite-only and spending zero dollars on marketing, the startup quickly scaled to a $10 billion valuation following major funding rounds backed by top venture capital firms. [1, 2, 3] If you’d like, I can share more details on how Instinct’s agent technology works or how it compares to other AI assistants like Meta’s Muse.
what it does: Each person brings their own assistant into a shared channel. Your assistant is your second brain. It knows your meetings, your notes, and your open decisions. That personal context stays yours. When a teammate asks a question in the channel, you ask your assistant to brief them. It pulls from everything you know and delivers the answer on your behalf, attributed to you. Your teammate's assistant does the same, from their own context. Teams can draft specs, track decisions, and update shared files from plain conversation. Each assistant reads the full channel history, cross references it against what exists, and flags what is missing.
Mistral raised €3 billion, the largest equity round a European technology company has ever closed.Samsung Electronics led it at a post-money valuation above €21 billion, three years after the company started. (Mistral)
Meta AI Released Muse Spark 1.3: An Agentic Coding Model That Uses 20% Fewer Tool Calls and 25% Fewer Tokens Than Muse Spark 1.2 - MarkTechPost https://share.google/bQLd36xXImb5CCa0o
Nobody agrees what a GPU costs, so someone built the index. The Computable GPU Index takes published on-demand rates from 28 providers every fifteen minutes and averages only the middle third of the weighted votes, so no cluster of sellers can drag the print. Open data, open method, open code, and the first thing being built on it is cash-settled hedges on GPU prices. (Product Hunt)
